There should be nothing I can't live without.

I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers.

When I first started writing, I had a very difficult time switching between projects, but now it's not only second-nature, it's indispensable: If I stall on one project, I can switch to another and stay productive.

When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written.

Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more than one place than one particular time, which is very vexing.

You can save the city, but having the city be in jeopardy is one thing and having the people you care about be in jeopardy is another.

Time has a certain current to it, and it wants to flow in a certain direction.